Best Bill Daley Takedown (So Far)

Ben Joravsky’s indispensable Chicago Reader political dispatches took up the case of yet another Daley dynasty mayoral wannabe in September, when only about twenty strivers to the fifth floor had yet shouted their names into the wind. Joravsky cites this prototypical act of dynastic “can-kicking” while picking apart the appalling strands of Bill Daley’s political and corporate finagling of recent decades: “Bill Daley is the father of William Daley, Jr., an executive for Morgan Stanley, the investment firm that put together the consortium that bought the parking meters…. The deal in which Rich Daley basically sold an asset worth about $10 billion to a Morgan Stanley consortium for about $1.15 billion.” (Ray Pride)